I subscribe to the Mercury mailing list and last week David Harris (the author of Mercury and Pmail) posted a message about the future semi-commercial direction Mercury would take in 2007. There was one follow-up post that complained (in a polite way) about having to pay and David, in my opinion, went off the deep end. That same day he posted on pmail.com that they were both discontinued.
The only money he ever asked for Mercury was for a set of manuals. I never needed a set of manuals, Mercury is easy to set up and use, and of course the mailing list is a good resource. I think a Donate button in Pegasus and Mercury would have kept him much more interested. As someone on the Mercury list said, if Pegasus Mail has 1 million users and everyone donated a dollar, that would make things much more interesting. Mercury was stagnating, new versions were few and far between.
My first PC (a 286/12 IIRC) had dual 1.2MB floppy drives, no hard drive. Yet I got almost everything to run that way, even if it offcially required a hard drive.
A later PC I had was a mini-tower, but I had 2 hand-me-down full-height hard drives I wanted to put in it. My solution was to stack the drives on the table beside the case and run the power and SCSI cables out the back of the case. Worked for years that way.
I've also been known to use a cardboard box that used to contain 10 5 1/4" floppies to put a 3.5 inch drive into a 5.25 inch bay.
We ran our company for years on a ~35 mile custom wireless Internet link. Our end had a ~4 foot dish on a 100 foot tower, the other end was a taller tower on a moutain.
We burn CDs 4 at a time at work, but I don't always hear the CDs when they are done and pop out of the drives. So I just prop a empty jewel case up in front of the lowest drive, it gets knocked over when the CD is ejected. Time to put in a new batch!
The picture quality is what I'm all about, and LCD is good but not great. Plasma looks great from almost any angle. Burnin isn't really a big deal any more, what is a big deal is the limited life, 5 or 6 years of continuous use. Even if mine does burn out in 6 years, the way things are going we'll be able to get 80" TVs for $500 by then.
I recently read an anecdote by a computer repair shop owner about a woman who left her computers in her (New England?) summer home every winter and they never would boot up properly come spring. It seemed the freezing and cooling cycles screwed up the circuit boards and chips. His solution for her; take the computers with her when she went South for the winter.
I originally got on Myspace to keep track of local bands. I made a MySpace account to see all the pics of hawt goth chyks. Now I get all these friend requests from people I don't even know. Some are spam, but about 1/3 seem to be real people that just want to collect friends. Friends that are total strangers. Okay...
I do work on a 100 foot tower and for some reason bees are attracted to it, they're buzzing around me all the time up there. They don't build nests on it though. Spiders build webs all the way up though.
I know the companies need to get word out about their projects to get investments, but you get jaded when they say these technologies are coming, but 3 years later you look back and it never happened. Give me news on things that are really happening, not what might happen.
People using Win98 at this point fear change, or just don't need to change. When they do upgrade, why learn a whole new OS when XP can be made to look 90% like Win98?
And they're not going to stick with that old hardware forever, the power supply, hard drive, or motherboard in those old computers will die sometime. Anything you buy new will have XP on it, which is how most people get XP I bet.
Things are still being figured out. I think the powers that be will finally conclude one day that John and Jane Doe cannot be allowed to access the Internet without being identifiable to law enforcement. Hopefully we can convince the politicians not to let that happen, but seems like every other week there's a new ignorant Internet law on the table.
I can't remember exactly, I believe something was left (unhidden) in a temp directory. Apparently the rootkit was trying to install a FTP server, and the install process didn't go exactly right, and left some remnants behind that I found. Maybe my firewall or anti-virus interfered.
It's much more than a "hidden" attribute on a file.
I fought with the HackerDefender rootkit earlier this year. Best I can tell it got in through a vulnerability in the Finger port of my mail server. It installed itself as a legacy mode device driver. The device driver was set up to hide certain filenames from Windows. Once installed, you COULD NOT SEE the files the rootkit used. The files weren't files marked with the "hidden" attribute, they were simply hidden from Windows at all levels. You COULD NOT SEE the registry entries. You could not see the task in Task Manager. Very evil and took many hours of my time to fix.
I can watch Lost and Jay Leno in HD, and the picture is gorgeous.
The question is, will I pay $24.95 for Serenity on HD-DVD? I think not. Whatever the standard will be, they need to do something about the price first.
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I subscribe to the Mercury mailing list and last week David Harris (the author of Mercury and Pmail) posted a message about the future semi-commercial direction Mercury would take in 2007. There was one follow-up post that complained (in a polite way) about having to pay and David, in my opinion, went off the deep end. That same day he posted on pmail.com that they were both discontinued.
The only money he ever asked for Mercury was for a set of manuals. I never needed a set of manuals, Mercury is easy to set up and use, and of course the mailing list is a good resource. I think a Donate button in Pegasus and Mercury would have kept him much more interested. As someone on the Mercury list said, if Pegasus Mail has 1 million users and everyone donated a dollar, that would make things much more interesting. Mercury was stagnating, new versions were few and far between.
My first PC (a 286/12 IIRC) had dual 1.2MB floppy drives, no hard drive. Yet I got almost everything to run that way, even if it offcially required a hard drive.
A later PC I had was a mini-tower, but I had 2 hand-me-down full-height hard drives I wanted to put in it. My solution was to stack the drives on the table beside the case and run the power and SCSI cables out the back of the case. Worked for years that way.
I've also been known to use a cardboard box that used to contain 10 5 1/4" floppies to put a 3.5 inch drive into a 5.25 inch bay.
We ran our company for years on a ~35 mile custom wireless Internet link. Our end had a ~4 foot dish on a 100 foot tower, the other end was a taller tower on a moutain.
We burn CDs 4 at a time at work, but I don't always hear the CDs when they are done and pop out of the drives. So I just prop a empty jewel case up in front of the lowest drive, it gets knocked over when the CD is ejected. Time to put in a new batch!
The picture quality is what I'm all about, and LCD is good but not great. Plasma looks great from almost any angle. Burnin isn't really a big deal any more, what is a big deal is the limited life, 5 or 6 years of continuous use. Even if mine does burn out in 6 years, the way things are going we'll be able to get 80" TVs for $500 by then.
Many terabytes, it's the access time that gets you. See it's hard to get it spinning very fast.
The quicker we can get away from a spinning rust platter read by magnets, the better. Less moving parts = more reliable (in general.)
I recently read an anecdote by a computer repair shop owner about a woman who left her computers in her (New England?) summer home every winter and they never would boot up properly come spring. It seemed the freezing and cooling cycles screwed up the circuit boards and chips. His solution for her; take the computers with her when she went South for the winter.
Have you been around HD video much? I'll watch 10 or 15 minutes of Sunday Night Football just to see the better-than-DVD quality.
I originally got on Myspace to keep track of local bands. I made a MySpace account to see all the pics of hawt goth chyks. Now I get all these friend requests from people I don't even know. Some are spam, but about 1/3 seem to be real people that just want to collect friends. Friends that are total strangers. Okay...
I'm sure there are lot of good experiences, but I don't want to sleep on someone's semen and farts.
Hiding things seems like a good way to get search engines to not like you.
Does MythTV record the whole show and then just skip commercials while it's playing it back, or does it cut commercials entirely out of the file?
The detection couldn't be 100% accurate.
It's sort of like where I live but cleaner, the landscape is more majestic, and the history is amazing. A castle on every hill.
What's stopping me is kids and family.
Day of Defeat
Civ4
UT2004
NFS: Most Wanted
GTA San Andreas
So why can't they use a camera like this to photograph the Apollo landing site, the lunar rover, etc?
I do work on a 100 foot tower and for some reason bees are attracted to it, they're buzzing around me all the time up there. They don't build nests on it though. Spiders build webs all the way up though.
I know the companies need to get word out about their projects to get investments, but you get jaded when they say these technologies are coming, but 3 years later you look back and it never happened. Give me news on things that are really happening, not what might happen.
People using Win98 at this point fear change, or just don't need to change. When they do upgrade, why learn a whole new OS when XP can be made to look 90% like Win98?
And they're not going to stick with that old hardware forever, the power supply, hard drive, or motherboard in those old computers will die sometime. Anything you buy new will have XP on it, which is how most people get XP I bet.
These scients know that you need to understand the origin of the moon, in order to destroy it.
Things are still being figured out. I think the powers that be will finally conclude one day that John and Jane Doe cannot be allowed to access the Internet without being identifiable to law enforcement. Hopefully we can convince the politicians not to let that happen, but seems like every other week there's a new ignorant Internet law on the table.
I think it probably could. It would take a day or two of training and I expect after that the accuracy would be 95%+.
I can't remember exactly, I believe something was left (unhidden) in a temp directory. Apparently the rootkit was trying to install a FTP server, and the install process didn't go exactly right, and left some remnants behind that I found. Maybe my firewall or anti-virus interfered.
Didn't know it was open, or it would have been closed.
It's much more than a "hidden" attribute on a file.
I fought with the HackerDefender rootkit earlier this year. Best I can tell it got in through a vulnerability in the Finger port of my mail server. It installed itself as a legacy mode device driver. The device driver was set up to hide certain filenames from Windows. Once installed, you COULD NOT SEE the files the rootkit used. The files weren't files marked with the "hidden" attribute, they were simply hidden from Windows at all levels. You COULD NOT SEE the registry entries. You could not see the task in Task Manager. Very evil and took many hours of my time to fix.
The goobermint said so.
I can watch Lost and Jay Leno in HD, and the picture is gorgeous.
The question is, will I pay $24.95 for Serenity on HD-DVD? I think not. Whatever the standard will be, they need to do something about the price first.
They can keep getting royalties from those $1 songs and $18 CDs, and I'll keep NOT buying them.